Articles...
Apr 24 2008
THERE are no documents to prove on which day William Shakespeare was born, but it is known he was baptised at Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564....
Apr 16 2008
THE title of Arthur Miller’s early play The Man Who Had All the Luck explains the plot but not its subtle nuances....
Apr 9 2008
YOU know just what you are getting with a Northern Broadsides production, although it might be even clearer if renamed Northern Broad Strokes....
Mar 28 2008
HOW do you cope when your first stage role is the lead in Romeo and Juliet? Philip Key finds out...
Mar 19 2008
THIS is a warm and magical, thought-provoking, gentle production from the Watershed Theatre Company. It starts off slowly, but soon picks up momentum with a polished cast who clearly relish performing it....
Mar 14 2008
STRAVINSKY and hip-hop dance may seem strange bed-fellows, but it was a meeting which worked remarkably well for the New York-based dance company Decadance at the Playhouse last night....
Feb 22 2008
TOLSTOY’S War and Peace is a mammoth novel and its stage adaptation is an equally mammoth undertaking from the Shared Experience company, so much so that the six-hour play comes in two parts....
Feb 15 2008
LEW Baxter gets to grips with an epic performance of War and Peace at the Playhouse...
Feb 6 2008
IF THIS production is the yard- stick by which Capital of Culture will be measured, then any group planning to stage drama mustn’t hesitate to take it in – and tremble at the standard required....
Feb 1 2008
“BRUISES? You can’t imagine!” declares Icelandic actor Bjorn Thors. “I feel like I have been run over by a train – twice.”...
